A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2024

Join us on Unpacking the Backpack, where we delve deep into the ever-changing world of K-12 education. In each episode, we'll unpack the complexities of teaching, learning, and leadership with a practical lens. Now, my podcast is going to be different from others. I also knew that I had a goldmine of content on my blog.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Yet now more than ever, K-12 students need basic modern data science skills. But American K-12 education still underemphasizes data science and data literacy skills — including the ability to understand qualitative and quantitative data, assess claims based on data and make data-driven predictions.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Recently I was conducting learning walks in Edward K. Not only did Elisabeth Trambley (2017) do a fantastic literature review of these, but she also conducted her own research study to determine the impact of brain breaks on behavior. Science and research compel all educators to integrate more movement into the school day.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

But how prepared are K-12 districts to handle the thorny privacy and security issues that these tools raise? Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

Research quick take Access to high-quality pre-K is becoming an increasingly popular policy across the nations largest cities, according to a recently released report by CityHealth. CityHealth is partnering with the National Institute for Early Education Research to track this progress here.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

You can align critical feedback to current research by keeping a document of effective pedagogical techniques found in your readings. In my role as a coach, I have K-12 leaders visit classrooms beyond the grade levels they serve when working with districts.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2021

Here is what I shared in Disrutive Thinking: These teachers—and a handful of others throughout my own K-12 educational journey—engaged in practices that were memorable and perhaps even outside the norm. Assigning arbitrary points for participation and behavior as a part of scoring guides or on research papers should be avoided.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 20, 2024

Research about cognitively demanding skills provides formal academic content that we can extend to less formal settings, including K-12 classrooms. 12(2), Article 16. 8 Of The Most Important Critical Thinking Skills Citations Butler, H. Enhancing critical thinking skills through decision-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That’s the contradiction at the heart of what education researchers call “subitizing,” from the Latin “subito” or suddenly, and it means to instantly see how many, much like the way we glance at a die and see four dots without counting, “one, two, three, four.” Some might see two groups of three plus an extra dot. Now he forgot it.’

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

We agree on a solution that will ensure the Spirit of 1776 forever endures: dedicated instructional time in civics should be the norm for every student throughout grades K-12. For most K-12 students, civics is a one and done single-semester high school course. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 1990, NCHE has supported K-12 teachers in the development and implementation of history education, with support from scholars, museums, historic sites, and other history educators. Today, NCHEs work focuses on three areas: professional learning, community building, and advocacy.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 10 Most Popular K-12 Stories, in Descending Order 10. Through these extensive interviews, as well as data analysis of studies including never-before-published research on teachers’ outside jobs, Tate Sullivan explains how and why this dynamic has become commonplace in the U.S. Thank you, as always, for reading.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

Throughout this school year, I have had the honor of working with all the K-12 schools in the Corinth School District in Mississippi. They are a 1:1 district who have really begun to hit their stride and push the envelope when it comes to the purposeful use of technology aligned to research-based pedagogy.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Future of Work Discussions: Research how AI impacts careers and discuss societal adaptations to technological changes. ’ to encourage deep thinking.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

While the book dives deep into theory, research, strategies, and success stories, we wanted to share some insights in a presentation format. Learn practical, research-backed strategies for tailoring instruction to meet the diverse needs of every student. Remember that personalization is not more work; it is better work.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its an approach some researchers think is too often missing from the classroom. Even among researchers, this can cause bulimic partisan commitments to one or the other, he adds.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while many of the studies showed gains for learners in some cases, the researchers concluded that flipped learning isn’t living up to its promise. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully. The hype is convincing — it’s seductive — but the implementation of the hype is not,” he said. “It

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Enter the age of standardization and computerized assessments that will test the living daylights out of students in the United States over the course of their lifetime in K-12 education. The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

A coalition of 14 education organizations, helmed by the nonprofit Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, released sample guidelines earlier this month that walk teachers and administrators through potential pitfalls to consider before using an AI tool in the classroom or for other tasks. In Michigan, it was a team effort.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Steven Barnett, founder and senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, was disappointed but not surprised by the NAEP results particularly in reading. I think this engagement with literacy is probably not just with their 3- and 4-year-olds, that it's just fallen off across the board, Barnett says.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

Because the site was relatively undisturbed before excavation, researchers have the opportunity to apply modern techniques to analyze sediments, organic materials, and artifacts in ways that were not possible at many earlier-discovered sites. Related Research Romandini, M., Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Marciani, G.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. And new research points to better ways to strengthen student-teacher relationships and a sense of belonging, argues Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Bowen, a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, wanted to fill the dearth of accessible teaching resources with sessions on coding, cartography, and—of course—Bowen’s pet-prolific workshop on data collection and visualization.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. Not only were preschoolers in public programs being expelled at more than three times the rate of older K-12 students, but discipline was starkly divided by race: Black preschoolers were twice as likely to be kicked out as white children.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. trillion — up nearly $750 billion in 12 years. Reimagining degrees and other pathways must start early with exposure to career opportunities throughout the K-12 education experience.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

. “The structure aligns with theoretical models predicting the use of specialized heating techniques for birch tar production, a hallmark of Neanderthal ingenuity,” the researchers note. DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-821428-2.00014-7 Discusses Neanderthal fire usage, including combustion structures related to tar production.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Recently, EdSurge talked with ISTE researchers who managed Teacher Ready, a research-driven project that (1) provides edtech decision-makers with tools to validly and reliably evaluate edtech, and (2) helped expand the ISTE Seal of Alignment certification by integrating user experience and product usability components.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Harnessing Kairos: Balancing Structured Time and Learning Velocity in K-12 Classrooms Time in education is about more than minutes on the clock or adhering to rigid schedules. A science inquiry project, for example, could include space for both quick experiments and in-depth research.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. Sign up for Proof Points and other Hechinger newsletters.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. There are five core developmental domains, says Van-Kim Bui Lin, a senior research scientist focused on early childhood development at Child Trends, a national nonprofit research center focused on child well-being.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Credit: Uni Halle / Markus Scholz Their research presents an unexpected reality: despite being bred separately, two lineages of German domestic pigs— Deutsches Edelschwein (DE) and Deutsche Landrasse (DL)—have evolved strikingly similar skull shapes due to shared industrial selection pressures.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

There is a great deal of research and evidence out there that pretty much debunks the claims of many in the world of education reform that accountability systems based solely on student achievement data have any merit. Integrate more opportunities for play in K-12. No, this is not a post about value-added evaluation practices.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. Schools need more robust examples that focus on what CT is (and isn’t), and they need specific support around K-12 CT integration.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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